How much more must we take?

Our correspondent writes ...

I'm not allowed to say this because the freedom of speech for which the UK is renowned now only seems to be the privilege of people who are not
natural UK citizens. But damn it! I'm going to say it anyway. I am absolutely sick to death of loud-mouthed Muslims!

It seems that almost every newscast these days features the spokesperson of some Muslim council or other bleating about the injustices that
Muslims face in the UK and elsewhere in the world. So what? The words "shit" and "tough" spring to mind, not necessarily in that order. There are
many people who were born in the UK of British stock that stretches back many centuries who are treated unfairly for various reasons and have to
put up with it because no-one in government really cares. They're too busy appeasing minority groups.

As we all know, Muslims in the guise of Iraqis have committed some pretty terrible atrocities against British and American soldiers and
civilians in the last couple of years yet I do not recall any Methodist ministers, Church of England bishops, or members of any other Christian
faith parading around British streets demanding head amputations for all Iraqis.

I have no doubt there are some very nice Muslims residing in Britain. My local newsagent may be Muslim; the guy who owns the fish and chip shop
may also be one. After all, they came from countries where Islam is a dominant faith. But I don't ask and they don't tell me. They are always very
polite and I get on very well with both of them. They ask me how things are; they ask if I would like salt and vinegar on my chips but they never
ask if I would like to convert to the Muslim faith.

I am no longer a practising Christian but I still retain my basic C of E faith because it will no doubt come in handy when my time comes. But
outside my own family, I have no idea if most other people I know go to church or not. I don't really care. If they do, it's their choice and they
don't rant on about it constantly. I appreciate that.

Occasionally, I get door-stepped by Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons but I merely tell them I'm not interested and they usually leave without
further argument. I do not deny any man the right to practise his religion as long as he doesn't try to ram it down my throat. Yet I get the sense
that Muslims will never be happy until everyone in the UK converts to Islam and I seriously object to that.

Why can't Muslims just go to their mosques, say their prayers, cleanse their souls and get on with life like everyone else? Why don't they try
doing something to improve racial harmony instead of doing everything possible to antagonise the people who have given them the chance of a new
life in a civilised country?

I watched the lunchtime news today and learned that the London Borough of Islington has the highest numbers of people selling fake tobaccos on
the street - tobacco that has ingredients so harmful they are capable of causing faster death than the tobacco itself. The one man ITV managed to
interview without blanking out his face was an illegal immigrant from Iraq. He, and people like him, intimidate passing shoppers into buying their
wares. "What else can I do?" he says in mitigation. "I cannot get a job."

I am somewhat astounded because what he is doing is strictly against the law but the task of taking him off the streets apparently lies with
Islington Council. No sign of immigration officers or officers from the Metropolitan Police which, in terms
of crime reduction, is rapidly becoming the most useless organisation in London.

To my mind, the answer to this Iraqi's predicament is quite simple: "You can go back to bloody Iraq! At worst, you might be at risk of a
kicking from some British squaddies but, hey, if it's a choice between that and you selling death on British streets with your packets of poisoned
fags, I know which I prefer."

So I ask myself, "Will things ever improve?" Unfortunately, I fear they will not. We are regrettably hoist by our own petard. Many years ago,
we should have been telling immigrants facts like 'These are our rules and regulations, these are our customs and beliefs, this is our language -
accept our conditions and you are welcome in our country, otherwise bugger off!' Instead we fall over backwards to appease our ethnic minorities;
we force everybody to be politically correct, and we play into the hands of those who want to change our traditions and customs to match theirs.

For the last three successive weekends London has played host to three Muslim demonstrations/protests/marches, one of which was the occasion
when masked men displayed life-threatening banners.

How much longer do we have to put up with this crap? When will someone have the courage to do something positive about problems that have been
smouldering for years and have now exploded to the surface? In the days when we had intelligent politicians, one of them tried to warn us what was
to come ... and no-one listened!

Visitors' Comments

DM, Havering writes:

I blame the government because if I was a foreigner and could get everything for free in the UK I'd swim over myself.
I was reading today that one family member could come here and claim child benefit even if the kids weren't in this country! Anyone could say they
had five kids. If you only claim child benefit, they ask for a birth certificate but if you apply for tax credits first you don't need to send any
id or birth certificates and they forward the details to child benefit people. So immigrants can effectively claim for 5 kids and tax benefits.
Easy as that. It's a joke!
I also find it offensive that my kids can't sing 'Baa baa black sheep' at school as it's offensive to non-whites!
I have to stop here because I get too wound up. If I offend immigrants by telling the truth I am in trouble; if I go to number ten with a load
speaker I'm in even more trouble. I've already had to move out of my own town of Eastham to escape the problems but now I'm in Essex I can see the
same thing edging in here since it became the London borough of Havering.

CS, Birmingham writes:

I do agree with this. They come into our country and think it's theirs. Well it's a joke!!! I mean the police wont even stop them due to the
fact that they're afraid and it's a joke!!!!!!!!!!

Carina, London writes:

I agree 100% and I am tired of this situation.

Bob and Nicole Pendlebury of Hove write:

We are seriously thinking of moving to somewhere like Southern France or Italy as this once-proud country is now the laughing stock of the world and increasingly becoming home to a load of
third world peasants who show no respect to us and certainly have no intention of integrating with us
... as if we would want them to anyway!

What a shambles...last one out turn the light off!

Standing up for our country ...

An incident witnessed in a supermarket recently:

A Muslim woman dressed in a Burkha (black gown & face mask) was standing in the queue at the checkout. When she reached the cashier, she made a
loud remark about the English Flag lapel pin the female cashier was wearing on her blouse.

The cashier reached up and touched the pin and said, "Yes, I always wear it proudly. My son serves abroad with the forces and I wear it for
him."

The Muslim woman then asked the cashier when she was going to stop bombing Iraq and killing her countrymen.

At that point, a gentleman standing in the queue stepped forward and interrupted with a calm and gentle voice. He said to the Iraqi woman:
"Excuse me, but hundreds of thousands of men and women, just like this lady's son, have fought and sacrificed their lives so that people like YOU
can stand here, in England, which is MY country and allow you to blatantly accuse an innocent check-out cashier of bombing YOUR countrymen. It is
my belief that, if you were allowed to be as outspoken as that in Iraq, which you claim to be YOUR country, then we wouldn't need to be fighting
there today. However - now that you have learned how to speak out and criticise English people who afforded you the protection of OUR country, I
will gladly pay the cost of a ticket for you to go back to Iraq. When you get there, and if you manage to survive after being as outspoken as you
are here in England, then you should be able to help straighten out the mess which YOUR Iraqi countrymen got you into in the first place - which,
it appears, is the mess you came to MY country to avoid."

Apparently every one else in the queue cheered and applauded.

Tim Mcnamara of Standard, Canada writes:

I am totally fed up by the incessant whining and racist attitude of Muslims in the West.
They come to OUR countries and then demand that we change our very successful society to accommodate their
primitive, misogynistic, and racist lifestyle.

They say that Islam is a religion of "peace".
Really?
What a load of s**t that is.
Peaceful, civilized people do not strap explosive vests on two young girls who have Down's Syndrome so they can mutilate and kill hundreds of innocent people in a market.

Britons had better get a hold of their so called leaders and tune them up or the Muslim domination of the civilized world will be a grim page in the history of mankind.
The West had better wake up soon and recognize the peril of Muslim domination.

Editorial Comment:

Tim's letter shows that such feelings are not limited to residents of the UK but to western people generally. But, of course, politicians will never listen to the people they are supposed to represent because to do so would be an admission that if they hadn't
interfered in the politics of countries who were never a threat to us in the
first place we wouldn't have the problems we now have. And, if the truth be
told, our involvement in Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan hasn't solved any
problems in those countries. If anything, it's just made matters worse.

"Many men stumble across the truth ... but most manage to pick themselves up and continue as if nothing had happened."